Sphere over Painted Post, NY
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Driving into work and I pulled into parking lot and slowed down and in the sky was a very shiny silver sphere, the sun glistened off it, I figured I would park and get my phone out but when I looked back up it was gone, I even drove back the same way I came in thinking it was only visible at certain angles but it was gone, I wish I would’ve never took my eye off it, it was stationary and not moving and reminded me of a round ball of mercury, mirror like reflection
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #155553). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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